I urge the Iraqi leadership for sake of its own people... to seize this opportunity and thereby begin to end the isolation and suffering of the Iraqi people.

• The Lord had the wonderful advantage of being able to work alone.
• Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
• Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.
• More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development.
• Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance.
• Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
• Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.
• If one is going to err, one should err on the side of liberty and freedom.
• We need to think of the future and the planet we are going to leave to our children and their children.
• Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world.